In his interview with the Washington Post, Egypt’s commanding Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi sharply criticized the U.S. response, accusing the Obama administration of disregarding the Egyptian popular will and of providing insufficient support amid threats of a civil war.

Iran could begin producing weapons-grade plutonium by next summer, U.S. and European officials believe, using a different nuclear technology that would be easier for foreign countries to attack.

Rattled lawmakers in both parties applauded President Obama’s decision to shutter two dozen U.S. diplomatic posts across the Middle East and North Africa this weekend, calling the threat of a fresh terrorist attack credible, specific and the most alarming in years.

Of all the challenges the United States faces as it winds down the Afghanistan war, the most difficult might be closing the prison nicknamed “The Second Guantanamo.”

Critics say Teach for America has strayed from a core mission of helping needy urban schools, favoring efforts seen as anti-teacher union.

Nearly six months after President Obama used his State of the Union address to outline a broad, progressive agenda for his second term, many of the policy priorities that earned applause from his base appear to be gathering dust.

Christie and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the “hottest politicians” in America, according to the Quinnipiac University Thermometer released today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner had the two lowest scores.

But just in case Apple doesn’t get the message, the DOJ is proposing that a court-appointed monitor be put into place within Apple “to ensure that Apple’s internal antitrust compliance policies are sufficient to catch anti-competitive activities before they result in harm to consumers.”

And of course Apple needs to pay for this overseer. And their no doubt entirely necessarily large staff.

Bug, did you actually read Apple's response to the DOJ? Here it is, assuming that you can understand what it means, which I sincerely doubt. Because if you read it and understand what it means, then you believe that the government should be allowed to control Apple, PERIOD.

For Apple, the imposition of a court-appointed monitor with the power to parse all of Apple's conduct for antitrust compliance across all its businesses for the next 10 years is one of a half-dozen ways in which the government has overstepped its authority. As the opening paragraph of Apple's response put it:

Plaintiffs' proposed injunction is a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple's business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm. Plaintiffs propose a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple's businesses and potentially affect Apple's business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets. Plaintiffs' overreaching proposal would establish a vague new compliance regime—applicable only to Apple—with intrusive oversight lasting for ten years, going far beyond the legal issues in this case, injuring competition and consumers, and violating basic principles of fairness and due process. The resulting cost of this relief—not only in dollars but also lost opportunities for American businesses and consumers—would be vast.

WASHINGTON -- In a move bizarrely reminiscent of its "anti-gun" enemies list,
the National Rifle Association announced a new plan Friday to target
scientists, environmental groups, government regulators and individuals
who favor banning the use of lead in gun ammunition.

The targeted attacks are part of Hunt for Truth.org,
a newly revamped effort by the nation's largest gun lobby to block
attempts to regulate the use of lead in bullets. Regulations have been
proposed in some states after studies have shown that millions of birds
-- most notably the highly endangered California condor -- are dying of
lead poisoning after ingesting lead bullet fragments.

The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, estimates
that hunters in the United States shoot more than 3,000 tons of lead
into the outdoors every year, and that as many as 20 million birds die
annually from lead poisoning.

To the NRA, however, the proposed bans on lead in bullets represent
an "assault" on "traditional" hunting and on hunters' rights.

"Anti-lead ammunition groups will not rest until all lead ammunition,
and ultimately hunting, is banned," the gun lobby claimed in a Friday
press release.

The NRA singled out a law under consideration in California which
would require hunters in the Golden State to use lead-free ammunition.
Lead free bullets are widely available from top manufacturers, and have not been shown to function any differently than bullets containing the highly toxic element.

In order to rally its members to oppose the lead regulation, the NRA
described a conspiracy theory involving crooked scientists, phony
research, and a shadowy network of nonprofits, zoos and government
agencies all conspiring to ban hunting.

According to the NRA, an "activist portion of the scientific
community" has formed "a highly organized network of like minded
researchers with an agenda to ban lead ammunition." In order to thwart
this looming threat, "Hunt for Truth will expose the researchers
associated with 'faulty science' critical of lead ammunition," the gun
lobby says.

Scientists aren't the NRA's only new targets. Nonprofits like the San
Diego Zoo and the California Condor Recovery Team are also on the
enemies list. The NRA claims these groups "have considerable influence
over many legislators and regulators," which they use to "capture" the
regulatory agencies and bureaucrats responsible for lead ammunition
restrictions.

"Under this capture theory, NGO’s, legislators, regulatory agencies
and researchers work in concert to implement policies and regulations to
ban traditional ammunition," the NRA alleges.

As of Monday, the NRA had yet to list any scientists it planned to
target, but there were seven environmental and wildlife conservation
groups on the site, including the National Resources Defense Council and
the Center for Biological Diversity. Four government agencies were also
singled out: the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the California
Department of Fish and Game, the Los Angeles Zoo and the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service.

A Libyan weapons dealer from a group hired to provide security to the special U.S. mission in Benghazi attacked last September described to Reuters how he has been behind shipping weapons from Benghazi to the rebels fighting in Syria.

The detailed account now may provide more circumstantial evidence the U.S. Benghazi mission was secretly involved in procuring and shipping weapons to the Syrian opposition.

According to informed Middle Eastern security officials speaking to KleinOnline on multiple occasions, the Benghazi mission was a planning headquarters for coordinating aid, including weapons distribution, to the jihadist-led rebels.

After the fall of Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi, the arming efforts shifted focus to aiding the insurgency targeting President Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.

Two weeks after the Benghazi attacks, KleinOnline broke the story that murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens himself played a central role in arming rebels and recruiting jihadists to fight Assad, according to Egyptian security officials.

@ahandout Independent Sentinel? So I ask again you think Mossad didn't know about it if it happened? And if Mossad did know, you really think the Israelis wouldn't be using puppets like Liberman and McCain to scream bloody murder?

@nflfoghorn, on Friday, he came in SMOKIN. At 8 o'clock he said "Everybody upstairs! We're going to have a talk.". A boat called in just a few seconds later so I went out to lock it. I thought I'd escaped. I got it solo after I was done. I went over to his office and he said to make myself comfortable because it was going to take awhile. I asked him if under his desk worked for him. at least i got him to laugh.

@nflfoghorn, OT, but everybody got their @sses chewed at work Friday and when I pulled into work this morning the boss was just heading over to the buliding . I took a candy bar out of my lunch and said he could have it if he didn't yell at me today. He took it. Lol.

@nflfoghorn@Hollywooddeed In the tape I watched, I heard Alex say that it was wrong because the kid put a "p" in it like this: emanciptation. So, Trebek was wrong too. Does Jeopardy then fine him his salary for the day?